{"id":1495,"date":"2017-05-29T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T04:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2017-05-29T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T04:12:42","slug":"memorial-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Day I usually repost <a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=165\">one<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1244\">two<\/a> things.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m going to link to other people.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Associated Press notes that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/f810835dad2c4715bff7f4a105c271ef\/To-many-Americans,-Memorial-Day-has-lost-its-meaning\">many Americans have no idea what Memorial Day is all about<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Over at Unified Patriots, Vassarbushmills talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unifiedpatriots.com\/2017\/05\/26\/bachelors-corner-on-memorial-day-sunday-2\/\">Bachelor&#8217;s Corner<\/a>. It&#8217;s a good story.<\/p>\n<p>Woodsterman has <a href=\"http:\/\/woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/memorial-day.html\">a nice set of photographs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mike at <a href=\"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/2017\/05\/29\/memorial-day-8\/\">Cold Fury<\/a> links to this <a href=\"https:\/\/thechive.com\/2016\/10\/26\/pulitzer-prize-winning-photo-husbands-final-request\/\">powerful photo series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wirecutter points to the story of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/the-declaration\/2017\/05\/884327-15-years-one-marine-faced-off-rolling-thunder-patriotic-display-youll-ever-see\/\">The Lone Marine<\/a>,&#8221; and asks that we remember <a href=\"http:\/\/knuckledraggin.com\/2017\/05\/a-memorial-day-thought\/\">those who are not normally remembered<\/a> on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Peter, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\">Bayou Renaissance Man<\/a>, has the text of <a href=\"http:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/memorial-day.html\">Donald Trump&#8217;s Memorial Day proclamation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Day I usually repost one of two things. Today, I&#8217;m going to link to other people. First, the Associated Press notes that many Americans have no idea what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}